Celebrating the First World Basketball Day with the NYU Professor Who Came Up with the Idea

December 21, 2023

She led NYU Women's Basketball in three-pointers last season. He was instrumental in getting the United Nations to recognize World Basketball Day. For this year's inaugural international celebration—which SPS professor David Hollander first proposed in his book How Basketball Can Save the World, based on his popular course of the same name—Hollander faced off against SPS grad student and star hooper Erica Miller in a friendly competition ad the Paulson Center. Who do you think won?

She led NYU Women's Basketball in three-pointers last season. He was instrumental in getting the United Nations to recognize World Basketball Day. For this year's inaugural international celebration—which SPS professor David Hollander first proposed in his book How Basketball Can Save the World, based on his popular course of the same name—Hollander faced off against SPS grad student and star hooper Erica Miller in a friendly competition ad the Paulson Center. Who do you think won?

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